By Bertrand Bielle | Journalist
Curious by nature, Bertrand is always on the lookout for the slightest little scoop. Passionate about football, he is never far from football and all the news that comes from it. However, showbiz or political events are also part of his preferred journalistic research.
Yeoh Choo-Kheng, known as Michelle Yeoh, has just opened up about a subject that was once painful for her, which was the cause of the failure of her first marriage, to businessman Sir Dickson Poon.
'Not for lack of trying': Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh reveals the painful reason her first marriage failed
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Michelle Yeoh, who became the first Asian woman to win the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Everything, everywhere all at once in 2023, celebrated its 62nd candle this summer. This brilliant actress always wanted to start a family, but never succeeded. In the podcast of the BBC Woman’s hourshe confides in this “real failure“, although she today claims to have stopped “blaming” himself.
As our colleagues at Parisianwe learn in this interview that the marriage of the one who will be soon on display Wicked with the businessman Sir Dickson Poon (from 1988 to 1992) was partly “focused on having children.” Which then resulted in nothing, and caused their separation: “It's honestly not for lack of trying.because I have always loved and still love babies.“
Today, she has definitely moved on: “CEvery month, we experience it as a failure. And then we wonder why? And I think that at some point, we stop blaming ourselves. I tell myself that there are certain things in our body that don't work in a certain way. That's how it is. You just have to let go and move on. And I think we're getting to a point where we need to stop blaming ourselves.”
Michelle Yeoh and her infertility, “the main factor that broke up my first marriage”
How did she manage to stop feeling guilty? “It took a while because maybe it's also the main factor that broke up my first marriage. You also have to understand that these are conversations that you really have to have with yourself and be able to look towards the future and think: yes, we love each other a lot now, but in 10 or 20 years I still won't be able to give him the family he longs for. And you have to be fair.“, she explained, returning to her breakup with Sir Dickson Poon.
Last year, Michelle Yeoh remarried French sports director Jean Todt, with whom she has been in a relationship since 2004. She still has no children, but is well looked after. In fact, she has six godchildren and “numerous nieces and nephews“She also has a small child, thanks to her stepson and his wife. She feels that way.”blessed“because in a way, because she finally had”a baby in his life“.
